![]() ![]() Pessimism leads to paranoia, which leads to defensiveness, which leads to risk aversion.Ģ. Simply put, people are not motivated or energized by pessimists. Even in the face of difficult choices and less than ideal outcomes, an optimistic leader does not yield to pessimism. We should all listen to him, not only to understand the challenges of putting ourselves in position to achieve something great, but also so we can decide if that’s the life we want for ourselves…ġ. He was responsible for acquiring Pixar, Marvel, Lucas Films, Fox, launching the largest ever theme park in the world (located in China), and building from scratch Disney’s streaming platform - Disney + (It just reached 100M subscribers - pretty amazing). ![]() ![]() Robert Iger is chairman and was CEO of the Walt Disney Company, and has been working in the company since 2000, when he joined as COO after ABC Group, the company he worked for, was acquired. Lessons learned from 15 years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company ![]()
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![]() ![]() Around this time, Zachariah gives Charlotte a knife called a dirk, a weapon with which to protect herself. Apparently he beat one of the crewmembers until the poor guy lost his arm. ![]() Zachariah tells Charlotte about Captain Jaggery's misconduct on the Seahawk's last voyage. She also meets Zachariah, a lowly black cook who's generous and kind, but whom Charlotte doesn't think she should associate with, as she believes him to be her "inferior" (5.1). She likes him immediately, and he asks her to be his eyes and ears (read: he wants her to spy for him, not undergo complicated surgery). On board, Charlotte meets Captain Jaggery, a fastidiously dressed man with impeccable manners. ![]() Also important: before the boat leaves the dock, Charlotte sees a shadowy figure steal aboard the ship. Against her gut feeling, and the warnings of a couple of the crewmembers, Charlotte makes the journey anyhow. ![]() The other two families who were set to join her on the voyage don't show up, for whatever reason. Grummage, is about to board a ship called the Seahawk. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle opens in Liverpool during the summer of 1832 where Charlotte, accompanied by Mr. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Summary Part I ![]() ![]() It was from this competition that she broke into publishing, along with the other winner, Courtney Milan. Shortly afterward, she entered and won the first Avon FanLit contest and her short story "Forget Me Not" was published as Chapter Four of the HarperCollins e-book, These Wicked Games. Her first publicly seen fiction was Jane Austen fan fiction written under the pen name Vangie. I would read through dinner, read through classes, read into the wee hours of the night, and, yes, I even read while walking!" ĭare works as a full-time author and currently resides in Southern California, USA with her husband, two children, and three cats. Whenever I felt lonely or uprooted, opening a familiar book gave me comfort. She says they became "my refuge, my entertainment, my source of information on all sorts of topics. Biography ĭuring childhood, her family moved often and books took on an important role for her. In 2012, she won the prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA award for Best Regency Historical Romance for her book A Night to Surrender. She has authored fifteen novels and novellas and created four different series. Tessa Dare is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling American historical romance novelist. ![]() RITA award – Best Regency Historical Romance ![]() ![]() ![]() Donald.McLean at 14:31 12 DanielRoseman - Farnhams freehold is often quoted to point a racist finger at him. Starship Troopers does well to demonstrate a lot of the mixed feelings people feel about war and veterans: an opposition to war and what it costs, but veneration for those who serve in it for their sacrifices. And Heinleins whole thing about 'race doesnt matter' is part of why the Starship Troopers movie is such an abomination (the other part being stupid science mistakes that Heinlein would have never made or condoned). But at other turns he lays out plain what so often rampant militarism can cause: soldiers with missing limbs, men dying in battles and wars that they don't even understand the purpose of, a war time atmosphere at home that can stifle civilian industry and rip families apart as men and women are drafted to replenish those lost at an unsustainable rate. Heinlein's writing at times glorifies and honors the bonds built between soldiers as shown with Johnnie's relationships to his superior officers and his own father. Starship troopers Bookreader Item Preview. However, you are just as dead if you buy. ![]() Robert Heinlein's tale of Mobile Infantry member Juan "Johnnie" Rico's journey from a student unsure of his future to an experienced, but still nervous when it counts, 2nd Lieutenant and veteran of "The Bug War," treads a very fine line between satire of and love note to militarism. Everything up to then and still later were incidents, patrols or police actions. ![]() ![]() In tender, intimate and distinctive writing, Taylor explores race, sexuality and desire with a cast of unforgettable characters.” - Newsweek Real Life is a gut punch of a novel, a story that asks if it's ever really possible to overcome our private wounds and buried histories-and at what cost. But a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with a young straight man, conspire to fracture his defenses, while revealing hidden currents of resentment and desire that threaten the equilibrium of their community. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends-some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. ![]() Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Paste, Bookriot, and Library Journal.Ī novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend-and a lifetime of buried pain. ![]() ![]() This is the first time the Shadow Council has appeared in a live-action Star Wars project. He sees himself as the best candidate to rule the Imperial Remnant. Gideon doesn’t seem to be won over by Thrawn’s mystique. ![]() Pellaeon sees Thrawn as the last, best hope to restore the dying Empire to its former might. We see the recently freed Moff Gideon meet with his peers in the Imperial Shadow Council - including Commandant Brendol Hux (Brian Gleeson) and Captain Gilad Pellaeon (Xander Berkeley) - to discuss the potential return of Grand Admiral Thrawn. Grand Admiral Thrawn and the Imperial Shadow CouncilĬhapter 23 opens with a major nod to a fan-favorite Star Wars villain. Here’s what we learned in the penultimate chapter of Season 3. Thanks to this episode, we have some major new insight into the fate of the Empire and how this dying organization transformed into the First Order featured in the Sequel Trilogy. ![]() ![]() Not only is Season 3, Episode 7, “The Spies” crammed full of epic action scenes, it fills in a surprising number of gaps about the post-Return of the Jedi Star Wars timeline. Giancarlo Esposito’s Moff Gideon is back, and he’s declared all-out war on Din Djarin and Bo-Katan’s growing clan. Leave it to The Mandalorian to pivot from a silly episode full of unexpected celebrity cameos to what may be the most ambitious and game-changing episode of the entire series. ![]() ![]() In Greenwich Village, Seeger was a member of the Almanac Singers, a group of musicians who used their music to advocate for social and political change. Seeger believed that music had the power to bring people together and inspire them to fight for their rights. He started performing at union rallies and benefits, and his songs quickly became anthems for the labor movement. In the 1930s, Seeger became involved in the labor movement and joined the Young Communist League. Seeger was known for using his music as a tool to support workers’ rights and to bring attention to social justice issues. Seeger’s involvement in the labor movement and unions spanned was legendary. ![]() But much of his life, career, and activism were spent and rooted in our neighborhoods of Greenwich Village and the East Village. ![]() ![]() Pete Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was born just to the north of Greenwich Village in Chelsea’s French Hospital. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just two dead bodies: Judge Fawcett and his young secretary. There is no sign of forced entry or struggle. His body is found in his remote lakeside cabin. Judge Raymond Fawcett has just become number five. In the history of the United States, only four active federal judges have been murdered. "The Racketeer," available on Amazon and Bookshop, from $9.29 ![]() ![]() Because they've just found the perfect victim. For the Brethren, the timing couldn't be better. A bizarre presidential election is holding the nation in its grips, and a powerful government figure is pulling some very hidden strings. Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich - very fast.Īnd so they sit, sprawled in the prison library, furiously writing letters, fine-tuning a wickedly brilliant extortion scam - while events outside their prison walls begin to erupt. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong. The third for a career-ending drunken joyride. They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. "The Brethren," available on Amazon and Bookshop, from $9.29 ![]() ![]() Anul 1962: o ruptură în destinul individual și colectiv Īurora Liiceanu, doctor în psihologie, a lucrat în cercetare şi a predat psihologie la diferite universități din Bucureşti, dar și la UQAM (Canada) sau EHESS (Franța). În prezent este cercetător senior la Institutul de Filosofie și Psihologie „Constantin Rădulescu-Motru“ din cadrul Academiei Române.ĭe aceeaşi autoare au mai apărut: Rănile memoriei. ![]() ![]() Primărița comunistă: o carieră politică.Mentalul colectiv: un peisaj aproximativ Nici alb, nici negru aduce în prim-plan fermecătoarea lume rurală, cu mici istorii înglobate în istoria mare și tradiții păstrate din generație în generație. Oamenii care cunosc obiceiurile locale se împuținează însă pe zi ce trece, iar modernitatea pare să risipească încet-încet atmosfera încărcată de credințe și superstiții care conferă satului aerul său atât de special. Religia, datinile și munca pâmântului sunt cele mai importante pentru comunitate și orice abatere de la acestea este sancționată fără drept de apel. Aurora Liiceanu prezintă o astfel de microlume prin intermediul poveștilor de viață ale locuitorilor comunei Surani. ![]() Satul românesc e o microlume, cu reguli și sisteme de valori proprii. ![]() ![]() He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. ![]() His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. ![]() That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. ![]() “The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. ![]() |